Why Chot Reyes should be retained as Gilas Pilipinas Coach?

Gilas Pilipinas Coach Chot Reyes

We all have been watching and reading comments by many so called experts calling on the resignation of Gilas Pilipinas Head Coach Chot Reyes.

We would like to hear the side of others who want to retain Chot Reyes as Gilas Pilipinas Coach. Why should he be retained as Gilas Pilipinas Coach?

A comment that we read is the experience by Chot Reyes in both the FIBA World Cup and Asian Games will be a great help in future tournaments as long as he learned something from it. Another issue is if we will have a new Head Coach, the players will need to learn a new system again and we do not know if that system will work against our opponents in Asia and the World.

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230 Responses to Why Chot Reyes should be retained as Gilas Pilipinas Coach?

  1. Macoy Saavedra says:

    Bakit ba palit kagad ang solusyon? Ganyan lagi. Laging half empty ang tingin sa baso. Ang nakikita lagi, mga mali, mga pangakong hindi natupad, which is mga maliliit na bagay. Look at it this way, ang program ng gilas, when it started, we were shooting for the moon, but we all knew it was impossible. We were even counted to finish last. We orbited the moon, and we were jubilant! Hooray! Everyone was proud to be a Filipino. Pero dun pa lanğ sa world cup, obvious na na may mali. We cant finish the whole game. Tapos ilang araw lang, humigit kumulang isang buwan, asian games na. Sa tingin nyo ba masolusyonan kagad yung butas nayen sa end game? Wake up people! Hindi basta-basta aralin at perpekin ang sistema. Para kang nagyabang sa tatay mo na alam mo na ang pasikot-sikot sa buhay. Gilas is a very young team compared to this international powerhouses. Let them commit their mistakes and learn from it. Hindi yang palit na kagad ng coach(which means new system na naman na kelangan aralin from the very start ng coaching staff, players, ballboy, waterboy, etc.). Masyado tayong atat umangat na hindi pinagtatrabahuhan ang tagumpay. Gusto lagi instant. Pfft!

    • DON CORLEONE says:

      Alam mo totoy bihira lang dumating ang magagaling na players sa PBA katulad ng Northern Consolidated dati na walang patapon sa mga players. Wala pong maliit na bagay sa sinasabi mo lahat po iyan malake. Ikaw po ang tumingin sa simula, hindi po tayo sumusuntok sa buwan at lalaong hindi po nating alam na imposible ang tanging alam natin na pasok tayo sa top 4 parati. Ang lahat po ng nangyari ay hindi po pagkakamali ng mga players.. Hindi naman na porket palitan ang coach iba na ang systema kaagad, pwede namang palitan pero iyon pa din ang systema hnidi ba? Hindi po tayo ata ang alam po namin ay napakalaki ng tsansa ang pilipinas maka 1,2 or 3. Entyende?

    • Cone says:

      bakit pag sinabi na new coach eh new system na agad? hindi ba pwede i addapt yung old system at dagdagan pa. ang paging coach hindi lang naman kasi yung system ng team ang pairalin it is about a character as coach din. Kung talo just say bad game kailangan pa ba ng blaming game para di sisihin ng iba kung sinabi lang sana ni chokeee ng ganun di wala sanang problema ang pinoy mahilig sa basketball saan ka man mapadpad sa buong pinas alam ang laro na basketball kung talo talo dapat wala na sanang hindi ako si ganito kasi gosh nag laro ka na ba ng ikaw ang buong sinisisi ng ng team lalo na sa coach ano pakiramdam mo?

  2. Bert says:

    The coaches of the teams Gilas went up against at the last World Cup had fits and a hard time reading the Filipinos’ game, thus keeping them off balance. Different starting fives for Gilas for every game, a different player erupting with points each time. Wow, Jimmy Alapag is right in saying that Gilas introduced the Philippine brand of basketball to the world–which is neither American nor European in style. Always up-tempo and seemingly unstructured, it plays into the innate strengths of Filipinos and compensates for their lack of height. daredevil lay-ups, dizzying ball rotation, and kick-outs to outside and perimeter shooters have been a joy to watch.

    Do you think set plays (for instance, the triangle offense)usually favored by PBA players will work against much taller defenders? I say keep Chot Reyes as national coach!

  3. Macoy Saavedra says:

    Si Coach Tim na mismo nagsabi, continuity of the PROGRAM is at utmost importance. (not verbatim) goole translate nyo na lang sa mga hindi makaintindi. Paniwalaan nyo yun, eksperto sa basketbol yun.

  4. okik says:

    Hindi na dapat pang maretain si Chot sa Gilas. Sa mga di nakakaalala; naging coach din yan sa Tokushima noon at pumalya din. Kaya naman hindi macheck ng kalaban ang Gilas sa Fiba World ay wala namang play si Chot. Kanto style basketball kaya pagdating sa endgame eh tirik. Sa ginawa niya kina Junmar at Japeth, kung ako ang player eh di na ako lalaro kung siya uli ang coach. Sana ibinalik na lang si Toroman, o kung willing si Coach Spoelstra eh siya na lang.

  5. Daniel says:

    Coach Chot should still be the coach of Gilas. Even tough we we’re just able to get 1 win in the world stage it is a huge win a moral booster for the players and for the country. In Asiad we got the worst finished of team Philippines but yet the whole Gilas family didn’t lose hope, they fought for our country. The Philippine basketball was introduced to the world in a huge statement last FIBA Asia. We got a golden silver then a ticket for FIBA World where we proved that the Philippines is not just a country that should be taken care for granted. Everything that happened will not be possible without coach Chot. He organize the Gilas program and choose the right players who can execute well the dribble drive offense, which is effective for us Filipinos because of our size disadvantage. He was able to connect each member of the team and make them a family. That was not an easy job to do specially when you don’t have time. But coach Chot did it. I think they will have pretty good chances now for future battles because of the experiences and especially the bond as a family aiming for their one ultimate goal. They will improve and they will be in the same rhythm til the end. They just need time to practice more, construct new plays, gain experiences from the past and grow more as a team. Coach Chot needs time with his team and he will be able to solve the flaws in their team, mistakes that they had committed and might commit. Coach Chot knows what he is doing and what is the best for the team so even the odds are against us i know we can conquer it. Go Gilas! Don’t lose hope! Fight till the end we always got your back. God bless. Puso!

  6. nofilter says:

    This Gilas stint is actually Chot’s second crack at being the national coach.

    His way of handling Gilas these past two tournaments brings back a vauge memory of a national team game in the not so recent past…. Chot was also the head coach then. There was less than a minute left in this game when he went overboard and kept on complaining from the sidelines and was called for a technical foul. …The opponent consequently made the awarded technical freethrow. …This happened during a very crucial period of the game with less than a minute left while we we’re trying to catch up. Andy Jao and Quinito Henson were the commentators of that Game and I remember that Olsen Racela might have been a part of that team.

    We lost that game by one point.

    Then and now Chot has shown that he lets his emotions get the best of him especially during crucial situations. You can’t count on him to make the right decision because he’s too emotional and can’t think right under pressure.

    You’ve had your fare share of chances coach. You can’t say you weren’t given a shot. Thanks for everything. Please step down.

  7. Alfred Mendoza says:

    I stiil thinks Coach Chot needs to retain his job. He still the best fits for the program. Meron syang mga pagkakamali pero marami rin syang nagawang tama, at malaking bagay yun experience nya sa International Competition. Bigyan pa natin sya ng chance to redeem himself.

    • Niko says:

      Years ago even before MVP came into the picture, Chot coached the RP team and was responsible for a crucial blunder at the sideline leading to a technical freethrow by the opponent which caused us to lose the game by a point. It was a game against Korea I believe.

      Gilas is Chot’s second chance… but some things never change. He still chokes under pressure. Thank you Chot.. Please step down.

  8. antin says:

    I hope coach chot learned much in gilas stint to fiba world and asian games and if ever he will have a chance to call for the gilas again, i hope he will apply those learnings and do better coaching next time around.

  9. chris says:

    When the team is way ahead in the first 3 quarter then lose down the stretch, imo, there’s some problem the coaching strategy…

    Napansin ko sa mga laro ng GILAS tinambakan nila ang kalaban,tapos mahahabol ng kalaban hanggang sa malamangan… kapag lumamang na dun pa lang si coach mag time out., di ba dapat kapag nakakalapit na ang kalaban time out na kaagad para mawala ang momentum ng kalaban at makapag set ng new offense and defense?

    Observation ko lang po, ewan ko lang kung tama ang observation ko…

  10. daypu says:

    Hey dude why are you calling those people commenting against the performance of coach chot “so called experts?” do you need to be an expert just to see what is right from wrong? How about those personalities like Ramon Fernandez blasting chot is he a so called expert? Hey dude, be mindful of what you are trying to portray, Philippines is a basketball crazy country and most people are well learned about the sports. Your shallow reasoning of retaining chot just because of a new system might not work is very absurd. We’ve seen already the capabilities of chot it is proven by the result. I never had a lot of lost of heart before but now just becoz of his many ill fated decision esp during clutch time. I guess better if he just resign and pass all the knowledges over to the new coach and let that new mentor do his task to better it and provide solutions and adjustment the team really needed. Hard headed like Chot can not be change, he will stay the same. i’m sure about that. So he needs to change.

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